Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [adv] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So this morning the fat little chap in the long white coat who was sorting us out in the Dean 's Office said I 'd better come along here for a few days until they got me organized with another partner . |
| 2 | Grown up enough for a proper kiss , I wonder ? ’ |
| 3 | In section 8.2 it was pointed out how for a simple single-section L-R or C-R filter comprising just one reactive component only reaches a maximum rate of fall-off outside the pass band of 20 dB per decade of frequency compared with an infinite rate of fall-off for an ideal filter . |
| 4 | Well no I did it last week and one of the references I could n't remember the name of the woman , so I just put Mrs blank and I just left it so I thought I 'd do it again cos there were a couple of bits I did wrong and a bit dodgy , so I though save me writing it I 'll just do it all over again but it looks like I 'm not gon na be able to now because we 've brought out here for a piddling stupid fire drill ! |
| 5 | By 27 May , though , things had quietened down sufficiently for a daring ( or foolhardy ) party to charter a steamboat from Batavia ( now Djakarta ) and sail out to the islands to see what was going on . |
| 6 | What right did he have to come back into her life like this , trying to shatter it into little pieces that could n't be put back together for a second time ? |
| 7 | It was a leafy place ; professional people , merchants , senior civil servants had lived around here for a long time . |